Croatia-based singer-songwriter Nemo James released la 17-track album last August titled The Minstrel, which should be categorised in the adult contemporary genre. For the most part, it can be summed up in one word: mellow. The lyrics make most of these songs almost come off as poems set to music while everything about the instrumentation… Read More Music Review: Nemo James – ‘The Minstrel’
San Francisco-based J Burn’s latest EP, the four-tracked Burnt Blue, is a low-key Americana rock collection filled with nostalgia and longing for better days long gone. Released this past June, Jay Burn (vocals, guitar), Jay Lane (drums, percussion), Robin Sylvester (bass, slide guitar), Jason Crosby (vocals, piano, violin), and Michael Nuzum (guitar, banjo, mandolin) are… Read More Music Review: J Burn – ‘Burnt Blue’
This month, Dallas, Texas-based Kimia Penton is releasing her new EP Lessons From Life and Love in which she examines, with emotions ranging from melancholy to joy, the various things adulthood can teach. Kimia Penton takes care of the main vocals and violin and gets help from Wes Stephenson on bass, Leslie Williams Blum on… Read More Music Review: Kimia Penton – ‘Lessons From Life and Love’
Happy Sunday! As you ready yourself for another great week, are you wondering what to take along with you on your commute? Take a peek at this week’s recommended commute companion! ‘Dear Opl’, by Shelley Sackier Review here. Purchase here. Author website here. Synopsis: ‘ There are three things Opl never expected to do during… Read More Book Recommendation: ‘Dear Opl’, by Shelley Sackier
Name: Chelsea Thorpe Blog Reviewed: 100 Ways to Write Her favourite post: https://100waystowrite.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/the-cinderella-project/ Down in the spreadsheet where blog review requests are made by bloggers was an entry that captured my attention from the moment it was added. One hundred ways to write, I thought to myself. There are actually that many ways to write? … Read More Blog Review: ‘100 Ways to Write’ by Chelsea Thorpe
He was a genius when it came to music and entertainment, but he was also human, like we all are. Unfortunately for him, Michael Jackson didn’t have the privacy or the space to work on his flaws and subsequently to grow with each lesson learned. Throughout the years, we have seen and read countless interviews… Read More Book Review: The Michael Jackson Tapes by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Food. Love it or hate it, you need it. Unfortunately, too many people have an unhealthy relationship with food, which should be a pleasure from beginning to… Well, to end. If you don’t mind, I won’t speak too much about the end part, OK? Unfortunately, the relationship with food has become yet another victim of… Read More Book Review: The Art of Overeating by Leslie Landis
The way the conversation around success seems to be going, it remains a broad, complex, and subjective concept. For example, I can define success as something you will consider completely unimportant. But even if we don’t agree with a certain definition of success, some of them still generate in us behaviours indicating that we just… Read More The Insistent Self: Dealing with Desire For Success
The question of the objectification of the human body has become an even more sensitive one for me after experiencing pregnancy. Why is it that the amazing potentialities of the human body to create life are not only limited to only its physical appearance, but that only a limited range of the way a human… Read More The Many Facets of Beauty: From the Human Body to the Body of Humanity
New York City’s Gideon King & City Blog is not a band. They are a collective that has brought to life a collection of 10 tracks fusing together jazz and rock. The chill smoothness of jazz and sharp edges of rock create a unique sound cradling pointed lyrics The collective includes quite the sizable band:… Read More Music Review: Gideon King & City Blog – ‘City Blog’